Sentence examples for no enlightenment from inspiring English sources

"Dark riddles filled the corners of life," Gallant writes, "because no enlightenment was thought required.

We were ruled by the Jesuits and the Inquisition; we had no Enlightenment, no Industrial Revolution.

Mones sketches her quaintly xenophobic protagonist with transformation in mind; in a story where the emotional journey mimics that of a Hollywood date movie, there can be no enlightenment without sweet cluelessness.

According to Austria's extreme-right Freedom Party, Christendom's old rival is not welcome in Europe because "there was no Enlightenment and no Renaissance in Turkey" and "one of the most important values of Europeans, tolerance, does not count in Turkey".

I tried a dialect dictionary from Lancashire, Lawro's birthplace, but between thrutch (a kind of combination thrust and push, as you might perform when trying to squeeze on to a Tube train in rush hour, of limited use I should say in a region untouched by the underground railway) and traunce (a tedious journey), no enlightenment.

No Enlightenment thinker observing our current predicament from the afterlife would be able to say "I told you so" as confidently as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an awkward and prickly autodidact from Geneva, who was memorably described by Isaiah Berlin as the "greatest militant lowbrow in history".

The Senate is showing no more enlightenment on the subject of energy than the House.

(In his writing, he has taken his claim beyond science, saying he knows of "no other Enlightenment or Renaissance scholar" who had let himself be shown that way).

But no similar enlightenment is in store in Myanmar, certainly not soon enough to save the 2m people whose lives may be at risk if they do not receive more help.

No transcendental enlightenment.

There is no racial enlightenment for these groups, which are huge.